Fox3
Very timely and apposite.
Today's announcement re base in Bahrain, reminds us that the Brit way is foreign policy first...throw the job at the military and tell them to get one with second.
First a week of announcing potential mega-cuts, then start talking about new overseas commitments.
OK, I know full well the Bahrain base does not amount to much more than we have been doing for years...that's not my point. We are committing once more to the "international policeman" role, which, whatever its merits, places huge strains on our defense resources. Only after we have made these commitments will anybody start worrying about how we are going to resource them....because basically we always find a way to muddle through. Increasingly the burden of all that muddling falls squarely on the shoulders of the British tommie.